My friends on the other side of the aisle who are saying, we've got to increase government by 13 percent, in a time when gross product of the economy is growing at 3 percent are out of tune with reality.
However, how much of this 5 percent additional over your budget is investment in the State? Lets say a large part of this 5% is healthcare and education, both investments in people -- if we take people off the rolls how does that help increase the State's GDP? If we continue to defund schools by not adequately funding their increased costs due to healthcare and special education, how is that going to help increase the State's GDP?
Also, how does an anti-transit and anti-growth transportation policy (in the sense that a user fee on gas isn't acceptable) affect the State's GDP? How does it affect prices of products in the State? Is it all that much better if we make a few extra bucks if we can't buy goods at the same prices? If gas continues to stay high or go higher, how can road and transit improvements not help the GDP? Do we gain more out of every investment we make in this situation than we traditionally did in the past?
Why isn't the State evaluating drastic policies to control healthcare costs for all businesses and citizens in the State? Why do they keep on punting the issue back to citizens? Why do we keep on voting people in who don't care about fixing the issue? Why do politicans think that importing drugs is any different than having price controls in the USA instead? When is this 200 billion dollar nationwide insurance overhead going to end?!
We need a governor who instead of watching the market and shrugging or coming up with half-measures takes action towards policies that make drastic change to the betterment of the State.
